Trousers-pocket



(No Model.)

J. M. OROSSLEY. TROUSERS POCKET.

No. 587,474. Patented Aug. 3,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. CROSSLEY, OF BREWTON, ALABAMA.

TROUSERS-POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,474, dated August3, 1897.

Application filed March 15, 1897.

,To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. CROSSLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brewton, in the county of Escambia and State of Alabama,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pockets forTrousers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

- My invention relates to pockets for trousers, and has for its objectsto produce a pocket in which the usual seam on the outer edge of thepocket will be dispensed with and that will render unnecessary the useof a number of pieces of cloth now commonly employed in making thepocket, whereby the appearance of the pocket is greatly improved and itsmanufacture simplified and cheapened.

To these ends my invention consists of the means as hereinafterdescribed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure l is a plan view of portion of front and rear parts of trousers,showing material forming pocket attached to the facings of said parts;and Fig. 2, a front View of trousers when made up, showing pocket-flapturned out slightly.

In the drawings, A designates the portion of the trousers constitutingthe front part; B, the rear portion. Formed integrally with these partsand extending therefrom are projecting strips 0 c, forming facings ofthe pertions A and B, respectively.

D is the piece of .material from which the body of the pocket is formed,and it is sewed to the inner or wrong side of the facings c 0 along theedges 0 After the pocket has been thus secured to the facings the frontpart of the trousers is then turned and creased on the junction-line cof facing and trousers and the usual seam stitched along the outercreased edge where the facing is turned. The facing of the back part isnot so turned, but is al- Serial No. 627,673. (No model.)

lowed to lie flat, being merely stitched along its outer edge to thepocket-body. The right or inner sides of the back and front portions ofthe trousers are then brought together and sewed together up and downthe edges to and from the facings, leaving the facing of the rear partof trousers plain and seamless. Such a construction will do away withthe objectionable seam along the outer edge of the rear part of trousersshowing the opening to the pocket and will make such openinginconspicuous and the cloth thereat smooth and un-- wrinkled. Myinvention not only obviates the necessity of this unsightly seam, butdispenses with numerous reinforcing and securing strips and piecesheretofore used in the construction of trousers-pockets, and thereby notonly adds to the appearance of the pocket by decreasing the thickness ofthe trousers at this point, causing the same to lie fiat and evenly, butcheapens and simplifies the manufacture of the pocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is As a new article ofmanufacture, trousers having a pocket consisting of a piece of suitablematerial forming the body of the pocket, facings formed integrally withand projecting from the outer edges of the front and rear parts of thetrousers, said body portion secured to the inner sides of said facingsalong the outer edge thereof, the facing of said front part foldedinwardly along its junction with the main body of the front part andthere sewed to said body, and the facing of said rear part of thetrousers unfolded and unstitched at its junction with the main body ofsaid rear part, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M. CROSSLEY.

W'itnesses:

O. M. LUTTRELL, N. B. LEIGH, Jr.

